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Events

Coronation Street history

• 1968 - The council buys the Mission of Glad Tidings, with intent to demolish it.
• 1990 - Deirdre Barlow throws Ken out of Number 1 when he spends New Year with Wendy Crozier instead of his family.
• 1992 - Katie McDonald is born premature.
• 1999 - Alf Roberts dies at Nick Tilsley's 18th birthday party.
• 2002 - Les Battersby's taxi is involved in a car crash. Les suffers minor injuries but the driver, Dennis Stringer, who had stopped Les from killing himself, dies in hospital.
• 2007 - Violet Wilson has a miscarriage.

Real world

• 1891 - Frank Pettingell (James Nugent, Emily's father) born.
• 1964 - Alice Arnold born.
• 1967 - Michelle Holmes born.
• 1988 - Margot Bryant dies.
• 2000 - Betty Driver is awarded the MBE.

Episodes

Except for 2005, 2008 and 2009, every year since 1999 has had a New Year episode, even if the date doesn't fall on a day Coronation Street is usually broadcast.

Episodes were broadcast on 1st January on the following years:

• 1960s - 1962, 1964, 1968, 1969
• 1970s - 1973, 1975, 1979
• 1980s - 1986
• 1990s - 1990, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 1999
• 2000s - 2000, 2001, 2002 (I) (II), 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007 (I) (II)
• 2010s - 2010 (I) (II)

From TARDIS Index File, the free Doctor Who reference.

Events

History of the Doctor Who Universe

• 1966 - The TARDIS departs Trafalgar Square, where it had arrived during the New Year's Eve celebrations. (DW: The Daleks' Master Plan)
• 2000 - The Doctor departs San Francisco, where he had landed two days before (DW: Doctor Who (1996)), Jack Harkness becomes the leader of Torchwood Three following the death of Alex Hopkins (TW: Fragments), The Doctor lands in Paris (IDW: The Forgotten)
• 2005 - A dying Tenth Doctor visits Rose Tyler before she had met him. The Doctor comments that she's "Gonna have a great year" before seeing a vision of Ood Sigma and stumbling back to the TARDIS and regenerating. (DW: The End of Time)

History of Doctor Who

• 1934 - Michael Wolf is born.
• 1935 - Writer Dave Martin is born in Birmingham, England.
• 1966 - "Volcano" First Broadcast (The Daleks' Master Plan Episode 8)
• 1969 - Sophie Okonedo, who was the voice of companion Alison Cheney, is born.
• 1972 - Day of the Daleks Episode One First Broadcast.
• 1977 - The Face of Evil Part One First Broadcast.
• 1979 - Freema Agyeman is born.
• 2003 - Cyril Shaps, who had appearances in The Tomb of the Cybermen, The Ambassadors of Death, Planet of the Spiders and The Androids of Tara dies.
• 2007 - TW:Captain Jack Harkness First Broadcast.
• 2007 - TW:End of Days First Broadcast.
• 2007 - SJA:Invasion of the Bane First Broadcast.
• 2010 - The End of Time Part Two First Broadcast

From the eWrestling Encyclopedia.

This article contains information on e-wrestling events that have happened on January 1st.

Births

• 1983 - Sweet and Tender Hooligan.

Deaths

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